45 Bible Verses about Being Single

And I say to the unmarried and widows, It is good for them if they remain also as I.

The wife and virgin have been divided. The unmarried cares for the things of the Lord, that she might be holy also in body and spirit: and she married cares for the things of the world, how she shall please her husband.

For I will all men to be as also myself. But each has his own favor of God, the one truly thus, and the other thus.

And if they have not self command, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to be set on fire.

And this I say, brethren, the time is restricted; as to the rest, that they also having wives should be as not having;

But I will you to be free from care. The unmarried cares for things of the Lord, how he shall please the Lord:

And he married cares for the things of the world, how he shall please the wife.

And of what ye wrote to me: good for a man not to touch a woman.

Which of you, being anxious, can add one cubit to his size?

The light of the body is the eye; if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be light.

And which of you having anxiety can add to his size one cubit?

Hast thou been bound to a wife? seek not a release. Hast thou been loosed from a wife seek thou not a wife.

And if also thou marry, thou hast not sinned; and if a virgin marry, she has not sinned. And such shall have pressure to the flesh: and I spare you.

And if also she be separated, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to the husband: and the husband not to send away the wife.

For as the body is one, and has many members, and all the members of the one body, being many, is one body: so also is Christ.

And to the married I announce, (not I, but the Lord,) The wife not to be separated from the husband:

His disciples say to him, If the cause of a man is so with the woman, it is not profitable to marry.

And I gave to them one heart and one way, to fear me all the days, for good to them and to their sons after them.

And Jehovah God will say, It is not good for man to be alone; I will make for him a help as before him.

And she is happier if she so remain, according to my opinion: and I also think to have the Spirit of God.

But for virgins I have not an order of the Lord: and I give an opinion as compassionated by the Lord to be faithful.

Let not a widow be chosen less than sixty years, having been wife of one man,

For there are eunuchs, who were born so from the mother's belly: and there are eunuchs, who were made eunuchs by men: and there are eunuchs, who have made themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of the heavens. He being able to receive, let him receive.

Fill ye up my joy, that ye may have the same in mind, having the same love, unanimous, being one in mind.

The light of the body is the eye; when therefore thine eye be plain, also thy whole body is clear: and when it be evil, also thy body dark.

And they shall be doubled from below, and they shall be one; they shall be complete above the head to the one ring: so it shall be; for the two corners shall they be.

And every pilot, and all the crowd upon ships, and the sailors, and as many as work the sea, stood from far off,

I think therefore this to be good for the present necessity, that it is good for a man to be thus.

And this I say for the advantage of yourselves; not that I shall cast a net upon you, but for the becoming, and occupied assiduously for the Lord without being turned away.

And I gave to them one heart, and a new spirit I will give in the midst of you; and I turned away the heart of stone from their flesh, and I gave to them a heart of flesh:

And there shall not a hair of your head perish.

For all the law is completed in one word, in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.

If he shall come in by himself, he shall go out by himself: if he possessed a wife, and his wife shall go forth with him.

And the twelve gates twelve pearls; each one of the gates was of one pearl: and the broad way of the city pure gold, as transparent amber.

God setting the only ones in the house, bringing forth the bound into prosperities, but those turning away dwelt in a dry land.

One witness shall not rise up against a man for any iniquity, and for any sin, in any sin which he shall sin; by the mouth of two witnesses or by the mouth of three witnesses the word shall be established.

And finally, all unanimous, suffering together, loving the brethren, having good bowels, an affectionate disposition:

And, on account of fornication, let each have his own wife, and let each have her own husband.

Therefore an overseer must be irreprehensible, husband of one wife, sober, of sound mind, well arranged, hospitable, giving instruction;

And he said to them, All have not room for this word, but to whom it is given.

Run ye to and fro in the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in her broad places, if ye shall find a man, if there is he doing judgment, seeking faithfulness; and I will pardon to her.

As has been written, That there is no just one, not one:

Good to dwell in the land of the desert rather than with a woman of contentions and anger.

For not a just man in the earth, who shall do good and not sin.

I will not drive them out from thy face in one year, lest the land shall be desolate, and the beast of the field multiply upon thee.